From Haaretz comes the fascinating story of a humble hero, Charles Winters, pardoned last month by President Bush. In 1948 Winters was sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined $5,000 for violating the Neutrality Act of 1939 when he flew a bomber to Czechoslovakia for later delivery to Israel:
His son Jimmy, 44… learned about his father’s past only after his death, from an obituary in The Miami Herald in 1984 with the headline, “Charles Winters, 71, Aided Birth of Israel.”
The blue-and-white flowers sent to the funeral by the Israeli government were another clue.